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H. SILVE'RMAN. RIDING SKIRT.

No. 560,602; I Patented May 19, 1896.

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H. SILVERMAN.

RIDING SKIRT.

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WITNESSES ANDRHN B,GRAHAM, PHOTO-LUNG. WASHINGTON. DI;

UNiTnn STATES PATENT I UFFICE.

HASKEL SILVERMAN, OF NEW 1'. Ultn, 1w. 1.

RIDING-SKIRT.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 560,602, dated May- 19, 1896. Application filed October 18 1895. fierial No. 566,053. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, HASKEL SILVERMAN, a citizen of the United States, residing at New York city, in the county and State of New York, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Ladies Riding-Skirts, of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to ladies riding-habits, and has for its object the construction of a riding-skirt which shall conform to the figure of the rider when seated upon the saddle, present a graceful appearance, and be free from the unsightly wrinkles common in ridingskirts as usually constructed.

A further object of my invention is to produce a riding-skirt provided with a pocket to accommodate the elevated knee of the rider, as also the pommel or pommels of the saddle, and which shall have the fewest number of parts, and the seams joining such parts so located as not to be under the rider. The accompanying drawings will serve to illustrate my invention, in which similar letters and figures of reference indicate like parts.

Figure 1 is a side elevation looking from the left and shows the form of the rider in dotted lines. Fig. 2 is a detached view of the skirt, the upper left-hand corner broken away to show the position of the saddle-pommel and the dotted lines indicating the position of the crossing seams. Fig. 3 is a view looking from the right. Fig. 4: is a detached view of the skirt, looking from the right. Fig. 5 is a detached view illustrating the position of the seams where they join to form the pocket which includes the pommel. Fig. 6 represents one portion of the skirt, looking from the left. Fig. 7 is a second portion of the skirt, look ing from the right.

The riding-habit is formed of three pieces A, B, and O.

The piece A is provided with an outwardly curved side edge 10 and an inwardly-curved side edge 11. Near the upper end of the piece A is an inwardly-directed opening 16, provided with oppositely-curved edges 16' and 16, while the top portion or waistline 13 is provided with a downwardly-projecting skirtopening 14, the said opening being formed of the straight edge 14. and the curved edge 14.

indicates a dart composed of the curved edge 15 and the straight edge 15.

The part B is provided with inwardlycurved edges 10 and 11 and a straight bottom portion 12, while the straightness of the waist edge 13* is broken by the darts 21 22.

indicates a projection terminating short of the upper edge, while above the said projection is the dart 18 19 and the inwardlycurved edge 17, Whose .upper portion unites with the waist edge 13. Y

The triangularly-shaped part 0 is composed of the outwardly-curved edge 10, following the contour of the edge 10, while the edges 16 and 16 complete the other portion of this part of the riding-habit.

The pieces of the riding-habit are assembled by sewing the darts 15 of part A and the darts 21 22 of the part B together. The inwardlydirected opening 16 is then sewed, while the edges 11 of the part A and 11" of the part B are united. The edge 18 is secured to the edge 19 and the inwardly-curved edge 17 is sewed to the upper portion of the edge 10, the remaining portion of the edge 10 being united to the edge 10, while the out-er edge 10 of the portion 0 is sewed to the projection 20' of part B and also to part B adjacent to the dartseam 18 19. The said piece 0 is also secured to the part A adjacent to the dart-seam 16 16, as shown in Fig. 5.

As a result of the assembling of the various pieces as described there is formed a recess or pocket adapted to cover the right knee of the wearer and also the pommel of the saddle P. It will also be noted that with the ridinghabit so formed one seam, as at R, is back of and to the right side of the habit, while the other, as at S, passes from the outside of the waist and under the right leg of the wearer.

Having thus described my invention, I claim A riding-habit comprising three pieces A, B and O, the pieces A and B having darts in their upper or waist portion, the piece A having one of its side edges 11, inwardly curved and its opposite side edge 10 outwardly curved, said side edge 10, near the upper end thereof having an inwardlydirected opening 16, with oppositely-curved edges 16 and 16 the piece B having inwardly-curved edges 10 and 11",

ing secured to the projection 20 of the part B and also to the part B adjacent to the dartseam 18 19 and to the part A adjacent to the dart-seam 16 16 as described.

In testimony whereof I affix my signature in the presence of two Witnesses.

HASKEL SILVERMAN.

' Witnesses:

FRANCIS H. Ross, PAUL N. TURNER. 

